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Speaker 1: never will be rich old men podcasting still if only uh, hey, Chuck, Hey,
Speaker 1: are you doing well? Yeah? You know, I think, um,
Speaker 1: I remember that you actually have done this before what
Speaker 1: we're about to talk about, um, and uh you had
Speaker 1: a good time into Yeah. I'll be offering my personal
Speaker 1: insights along the way. But I was hoping so that's
Speaker 1: what I was getting at. Um. Hey, so I read
Speaker 1: this article in Slate. It's called America's Ancient Cave Art.
Speaker 1: And back in the late seventies, there were a couple
Speaker 1: of friends who worked for the U. S. Forestry Service
Speaker 1: and I think Tennessee, and Um, they were running around,
Speaker 1: um the forest, and they found a cave and they
Speaker 1: started to explore it. And they went into it and
Speaker 1: they noticed, like there were all these weird like scratches
Speaker 1: on the wall. And when they looked a little closer, like, wait,
Speaker 1: that's not a scratch, that's a snake with horns, and
Speaker 1: that's a bird that like is tearing the head off
Speaker 1: of something else. And one of them luckily realized that
Speaker 1: these are all images associated with what's called the Southeastern
Speaker 1: Ceremonial Complex, or more coolly named the Southern Death Cult,
Speaker 1: which sprung up around the southeastern United States inexplicably about
Speaker 1: years ago. There's like this um what what the author
Speaker 1: of the article called a religious outbreak that they have
Speaker 1: no idea where it came from. But um, the weird
Speaker 1: thing about this is that they these these um drawings
Speaker 1: were completely preserved, like you could still smear the charcoal. Um.
Speaker 1: They and even though they were anywhere from five and
Speaker 1: then they found some others that are up to like
Speaker 1: six thousand years old, and they're all in this enormous,
Speaker 1: elaborate cave system in the southeastern United States, specifically the
Speaker 1: Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee, UM. But what's most remarkable, aside
Speaker 1: from their preservation, is that some of these are like
Speaker 1: a mile into the cave. So some of the mississipp
Speaker 1: In people were running around walking a mile into a
Speaker 1: cave to like leave this art and it was perfectly preserved.
Speaker 1: That's pretty cool, even though almost every other trace of
Speaker 1: this religious outbreak, the Southern Death Cult is just gone.
Speaker 1: And that cool. That's awesome. So I bring that up
Speaker 1: because that is one of the big reasons that people
Speaker 1: go caving, which ultimately is entering a cave. Once you
Speaker 1: walk into a cave, you're caving, right, Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1: Uh one in Southern Death Cult. The original name of
Speaker 1: the cult the band, Yes, it was, and they changed
Speaker 1: it so much better. Well, I mean, that's one of
Speaker 1: the coolest names anyone's ever come up with. And it's
Speaker 1: an archaeological term. Yeah, so it's got just you know,
Speaker 1: academic meaning as well. All right, Well, aside from the
Speaker 1: poor name, change. I like the band. Yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: good band I used to do. You don't anymore, Well,
Speaker 1: I mean it's just that sort of represented like high
Speaker 1: school to me in early college. They still hold up.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's not I don't like it, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Billy Duffy plays a main guitar. All right, so spe lunking.
Speaker 1: Should we go ahead and get this out of the way.
Speaker 1: That's that's another word for caving. But um been't there
Speaker 1: an Atari game named Blanker? I think so. But cavers
Speaker 1: don't really use that term a lot. They use it derogatorially. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that is the case. I'm trying to remember
Speaker 1: because I went caving, Like you said, go ahead and
Speaker 1: set that up for the rest of the show. With
Speaker 1: my former neighbor, Um, who was a fan of the show.
Speaker 1: For you guys have a spat. We don't talk anymore.
Speaker 1: I refused to acknowledge as president. No, he moved, Um,
Speaker 1: But the other way that happened, yeah, yeah, he Um
Speaker 1: he lived across the street and Um left a letter
Speaker 1: my mailbox one day and it was like, hey, dude,
Speaker 1: I heard you mentioned. It might have been after the
Speaker 1: biospil speleology, which we'll touch on it again said I'm
Speaker 1: experienced caver. Me and my buddy would love to take
Speaker 1: you and you guys too, you and yeah, yeah we
Speaker 1: were invited. Originally it was all more of us and
Speaker 1: it ended up being just me. Right the day came,
Speaker 1: I was like, let's see crawl around in the cold
Speaker 1: in the cave, get wet and muddy. I'm gonna stay home. Boy.
Speaker 1: After I did it, I was like, I'm so glad
Speaker 1: Emily and you, me and Josh didn't come. Just you
Speaker 1: guys wouldn't like that. Yeah, there's a good picture of
Speaker 1: you on Facebook where you're covered in mud. Yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: post more pictures when this comes out, but yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: touch it on as we go. But the first thing
Speaker 1: I want to point out is that a cave can
Speaker 1: be a thing that you picture when you picture a cave,
Speaker 1: which is like you're walking along and there's a big,
Speaker 1: huge entrance that you're looking at and you walk in,
Speaker 1: or in this case, it can be a little hole
Speaker 1: in the ground, which is when I walked by, I
Speaker 1: was like, that that's where we're going, and he was
Speaker 1: like yeah. I was like, really, it's like a two
Speaker 1: foot little hole in the ground. Yeah, it looked like, um,
Speaker 1: maybe a place where foxes livers. Yeah, and he's like,
Speaker 1: now that's how you get in there. I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: you're like, that's how you get in their pal But
Speaker 1: it ended up being, aside from the most physically challenging
Speaker 1: thing I've ever done, one of the coolest things I've done.
Speaker 1: It was very difficult, but you, I mean, you nail
Speaker 1: it on the head. The cave is basically any opening
Speaker 1: from the surface below ground, Yeah, into the earth right
Speaker 1: and um. For the most part, when we think of
Speaker 1: a cave, it's part of something called the karst landscape,
Speaker 1: which is characterized by like sink holes, underground aquifers, um,
Speaker 1: subtranean drainage, caves, a cave system. That's part that's it's
Speaker 1: technically called a karst landscape. Yeah. And well, once you
Speaker 1: read that, you kind of take it for granted, but
Speaker 1: if you never really thought about it. I hadn't never
Speaker 1: thought about it. I was like, well, why are these
Speaker 1: caves even here? You know, someone didn't come in here
Speaker 1: and carve these out. No, but some natural processes, dude,
Speaker 1: that's right. There's actually um four main ways that caves
Speaker 1: are created, right, Yeah, most caves um are limestone caves,
Speaker 1: and you get those when rainwater uh seeps down through
Speaker 1: the soil, picks up some C O two along the
Speaker 1: way and that forms carbonic acid, which is kind of weak.
Speaker 1: It is, but if you if you have carbon carbonic
Speaker 1: acid present in the same area for eons, Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: going to eventually eat away at even stone, Yeah, like limestone,
Speaker 1: And that's basically what happens. It either collects there for
Speaker 1: a long time or is um rushed in there by
Speaker 1: rain and uh corrosion. Yeah, that's what happens. It's erosion
Speaker 1: through abrasion. Through abrasion just basically rain will running over
Speaker 1: something long enough, it's gonna erode it. And that's how
Speaker 1: you get a cave one way. Yeah, that's the that's
Speaker 1: the main way. I think. Um, you've got extreme of files,
Speaker 1: which is kind of cool. We're still we're starting to realize,
Speaker 1: you know. I think we talked about them in the
Speaker 1: Are we All Marson's episode? Yeah, we have an article
Speaker 1: on extreme of files that I have earmarked for us.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good. Um. They are basically bacteria that live
Speaker 1: and thrive in um toxic environments like places where nothing
Speaker 1: else lives. High sulfuric content are really high, temperatures are
Speaker 1: really really low, temperatures are just Yeah, they're the only
Speaker 1: things that live there. UM, and they are starting to
Speaker 1: realize that they have a pretty big impact on cave formation.
Speaker 1: For example, there's some that um like to eat oil underground.
Speaker 1: I never knew this, and they eat and eat, and
Speaker 1: then they shoot ducks of sulfi gas, right, And the
Speaker 1: sulfi gas goes up and up and up as gases
Speaker 1: wants to do, and it travels through UM. The through
Speaker 1: groundwater picks up oxygen and becomes sulfuric acid, and that
Speaker 1: really starts to eat away at caves. Yeah, that's probably
Speaker 1: more so I think than yeah, which is you probably
Speaker 1: want to look out for the sulfuric acid lake in
Speaker 1: a cave system if you're ever caving, I would say so.
Speaker 1: So that's number two. Um, see sea caves, you'll see
Speaker 1: a lot UM. If you ever do sea kayaking and
Speaker 1: stuff around the island, you might venture into a sea cave.
Speaker 1: It's pretty cool. Um. They are basically just water pounding
Speaker 1: away at these seaside cliffs to the point where they
Speaker 1: formed caves pretty easy. Yeah, did you ever see the Orphanage,
Speaker 1: the Gearmo del Toro movie. No, dude, you've not seen that.
Speaker 1: I almost watched it last week. That is one of
Speaker 1: the best ghost movies ever made. Yeah. I was by
Speaker 1: myself and I wanted to watch something scary because it
Speaker 1: was and I searched around on the internet for like,
Speaker 1: what's a really good scary movie, not some crappy scary movie,
Speaker 1: and that was on the list. And I ended up
Speaker 1: searching and researching for so long. They didn't watch anything,
Speaker 1: went to sleep. You should have asked me or go
Speaker 1: on to the social media's like. Yeah. Once, I was
Speaker 1: like a Christmas scary movies and got in a conversation
Speaker 1: with Joe Randazzo and like a couple of other people
Speaker 1: and ended up with this list of like great horror
Speaker 1: movies and all of them panned out awesomely. That, dude,
Speaker 1: that was another one recommended. But dude, it is it's
Speaker 1: just like the Spanish Civil War era orphan No, no, no,
Speaker 1: that's um what is that one called? I know the
Speaker 1: one you're talking about. I saw that one. That's okay.
Speaker 1: Compared to the Orphanage, it might as well have been
Speaker 1: like Pee Wee's Playhouse. Hey, I like peewee, know, I
Speaker 1: mean as far as light fair goes. Ah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: it's just so much better watching it. Yeah, and watch
Speaker 1: Us of the Devil too, It's pretty good. I think
Speaker 1: you like that a lot. Yeah, I don't. I like
Speaker 1: good scary. I don't like all that crappy saw like stuff,
Speaker 1: you know, like shocking, torture, porn crap. I like the
Speaker 1: first couple sauce. Alright, So that's the third wave. That well,
Speaker 1: that was a good one. The fourth um is lava tubes.
Speaker 1: You know, when lava comes up through a volcano and
Speaker 1: it shoots up, if the conditions are right, the outer
Speaker 1: part will cool more quickly than the creamy, gooey middle. Uh.
Speaker 1: And when that happens that our shell will come together
Speaker 1: and form this coherent crust, and the stuff in the
Speaker 1: middle might fall back down. Right, You got yourself a tube.
Speaker 1: You have a tube of lava. Now, if at the
Speaker 1: top of this that that top caves in or crumbles
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you have an entrance, and the
Speaker 1: lava tube is now a cave. Because again, cave is
Speaker 1: any entry from the above ground to hell. I imagine
Speaker 1: the lava tube caves are pretty interesting to explore. But
Speaker 1: I'm a limestone guy. Well, I mean, you don't spend
Speaker 1: much time in Hawaii. If you did, I'll bet you'd
Speaker 1: be a lava tube guy too. Yeah, you're probably right,
Speaker 1: all right. So once you're in the cave, you're gonna
Speaker 1: notice a couple of things straight away. Um, stillactites and
Speaker 1: stillac mites. Okay, which is which? Man? I feel like
Speaker 1: we have a golden opportunity to explain this to thousands
Speaker 1: and thousands and hundreds of thousands of people. It's very easy.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of little ways you can remember. Maybe
Speaker 1: millions of people still lack tights, and that is where
Speaker 1: the sea are the ones that hang down. And you
Speaker 1: can remember that by maybe hold on tight, still lack tight.
Speaker 1: They gotta hold on tight. Yeah, because it's not stillag
Speaker 1: tight and stillag tight or stalac mite and stalagmite. It's
Speaker 1: stillack tight with the sea and then stalagmite with the
Speaker 1: G and M. So that helps too, because you have
Speaker 1: C for ceiling or G for ground. Great, there you
Speaker 1: just did it, or T for top. If that helps you,
Speaker 1: we give you three ways to remember this. I don't
Speaker 1: think that we're I don't I think I messed it up.
Speaker 1: This is so simple for a second and then I
Speaker 1: I'm sorry everyone. So stalactites hang down, Stalagmites come up
Speaker 1: from the bottom. Uh. They are speliotherms, which is a
Speaker 1: K formation. And this happens when um carbonic acid eats
Speaker 1: away at this limestone, it starts dripping the calcite mineral
Speaker 1: from rain water. Yeah, it's just kind of trickling in
Speaker 1: and it's just two centuries. Yeah, And as it is,
Speaker 1: it's depositing that calcite, right. Yeah, So it drips down
Speaker 1: from the top, so it forms and then it will
Speaker 1: you know, not drip up, but collect and form up
Speaker 1: from the bottom. Sometimes they'll meet and form a column,
Speaker 1: which is really cool. But these things grow at a
Speaker 1: rate of a quarter inch to an inch per century. Wow,
Speaker 1: So you can't sit around and watch a stalactite form.
Speaker 1: That is basically so, the rain water comes down and
Speaker 1: drips down, and whatever deposits are at the top going
Speaker 1: down is a stalac tight, that's right. And it drifts
Speaker 1: down under the ground and builds a formation that grows
Speaker 1: up towards the top. Yes, that's a stalag might and
Speaker 1: that's why you usually find them together. And stillast scene
Speaker 1: is actually the Greek derivative and means to drip. Really,
Speaker 1: so there you have it. And uh, they did mention
Speaker 1: I look these up because I've never seen them other uh,
Speaker 1: speleotherms like fried eggs and bacon. Did you look these up?
Speaker 1: It's pretty neat. It looks like a fried egg. It's
Speaker 1: the big formation. Yeah, it looks like a you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's large and round and has a center that's
Speaker 1: very round as well. And then the bacon stuff, it
Speaker 1: looks like bacon strips. It's like, you know, these little
Speaker 1: strip like formations that have different colored patterns that look like,
Speaker 1: you know, the fatty part of the bacon and the
Speaker 1: meaty part, and it looks like Fridays and bacons. I
Speaker 1: feel like I saw the Friday eggs warm before you
Speaker 1: probably have. When I saw it, I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's what that is, Friday's and bacon. I had to
Speaker 1: see it because the the the name wasn't descriptive enough. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's just this just proves that speleologists are fun
Speaker 1: loving people. Right, So while you're in the cave, you're
Speaker 1: probably going to run into certain kinds of animals, and
Speaker 1: as speleologists love to do, they've classified these things in
Speaker 1: the categories, right. Yeah, we talked about these in Biospeleology.
Speaker 1: Creepy cave dwelling things. Yeah. If you haven't heard that
Speaker 1: UM episode, go check it out. It's all about caves
Speaker 1: and the stuff living in caves. It's really cool. UM.
Speaker 1: But the troglzines, those are temporary visitors, like a bear
Speaker 1: maybe hibernating in a cave. It's they live most of
Speaker 1: their life outside of the cave and coming for shelter
Speaker 1: food or like that. Then there's a trougle of files.
Speaker 1: That means they love the trog they do. They spend
Speaker 1: most of their life there, but they will come out
Speaker 1: some for food. Yeah, but they spend most of their
Speaker 1: lives in the cave, right Yeah. Salamander's crickets, uh Daddy
Speaker 1: long Legs and other spiders love them. And then there's
Speaker 1: the trougle of bites. Yeah. Those are ones who live
Speaker 1: their entire lives within the dark zone of the cave
Speaker 1: and usually they don't have eyes, and apparently without exception,
Speaker 1: they're all blind, like the Prometheus salamander. Yeah, I remember
Speaker 1: that thing, the ozark blind salamander, the Tooth Cave spider,
Speaker 1: which isn't as creepy looking as it sounds. I expected
Speaker 1: to see, like, you know, some something out of a
Speaker 1: like B movie, but it was just a little skinny spider.
Speaker 1: But if you name something the tooth cave spider, you
Speaker 1: expect some like really scary looking thing, yeah, or something
Speaker 1: with glasses and huge buck teeth. Yeah. Uh, same with
Speaker 1: the tooth cave beetle. And then and they're also blind
Speaker 1: fish and shrimp and all manner of little white, creepy creatures.
Speaker 1: They lack pigment because they don't need it, Like, screw pigment.
Speaker 1: What do we need that for? Um? And then I
Speaker 1: this kind of stuck out to me, the idea that
Speaker 1: it's always the average annual temperature of the surface above
Speaker 1: a cave within the cave. So if it's the average
Speaker 1: temperature over the course of an entire year in the
Speaker 1: spot above a cave is sixty degrees, it's always sixty
Speaker 1: degrees in the cave. Not true, that's not true. No,
Speaker 1: So this this the the temperatures in a cave are
Speaker 1: very very stable. Um. But you know, depending on how
Speaker 1: how deep it is. Closer you get to the center
Speaker 1: of the earth, the warmer it gets so that has
Speaker 1: an effect. And just like above ground with the sun warming, um,
Speaker 1: the surface differently causes weather, different amounts of heat in
Speaker 1: inside a cave. Cause what we wouldn't recognize is weather,
Speaker 1: but actual weather itself. So is this wrong? Yes, the
Speaker 1: way it stated, it's always the average annual temperature. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but generally it is. Yeah, it's usually very stable and
Speaker 1: it's very close to that. But we're finding now that
Speaker 1: there is actual weather that happens in a cave, just
Speaker 1: like there we found out there's seasons on the bottom
Speaker 1: of the sea floor like that. It seems like the
Speaker 1: same thing to us, but there's actually like seasons and
Speaker 1: changes that we don't We didn't recognize because we don't
Speaker 1: think of it that way. Uh, caves um sometimes can
Speaker 1: be dry and dusty. I guess it all depends on
Speaker 1: where you are in the country. Um. The one I
Speaker 1: went to, and like many caves are wet and muddy,
Speaker 1: and I was not expecting that. I was not expecting
Speaker 1: a lot of what I encountered. Actually, really, you weren't.
Speaker 1: Were you prepared for a wet money? Oh yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean they told me what to wear and we'll get
Speaker 1: into all that stuff. But um, I just I don't know.
Speaker 1: I thought it was gonna be walking into a thing
Speaker 1: and then walking around, sort of like the kid caves
Speaker 1: that you can take the whole family too. But um, yeah,
Speaker 1: it wasn't like that at all. It was being dropped
Speaker 1: into a muddy, wet, cold hell. Yeah. And you looked
Speaker 1: like it too, man afterwards, like you were really glad
Speaker 1: to be top side again. It was weird coming out,
Speaker 1: I'll say that. So why did you go? Why would
Speaker 1: anybody go? What's the allure of caving? Uh? The unknown
Speaker 1: and the thrill of discovery. Well, it's true though, that's
Speaker 1: what the article says. But I don't mean to be glib.
Speaker 1: It is very cool and way different down there, Like
Speaker 1: you get a sense that it is. It is not
Speaker 1: the same top side as it is in the bowels
Speaker 1: of the earth. Very different place and very cool to experience. Yeah, firsthand.
Speaker 1: And as we mentioned, there's a lot of good opportunity
Speaker 1: for cave archaeology because the climate and temperature in a
Speaker 1: cave is so stable. Things are Things left in caves
Speaker 1: are really really well preserved. Yeah, and you know they're
Speaker 1: the caves were a good place for ancient rituals and
Speaker 1: things and um, they mentioned that the cave art in France.
Speaker 1: Have you seen this stuff? Yeah, holy cow, it's like
Speaker 1: it looks like artwork painted on canvas, some of it does.
Speaker 1: It's not like, you know, just scratchy cave drawings. Like
Speaker 1: this stuff is really beautiful. And uh they found this
Speaker 1: um in nineteen forty. They discovered this in France from
Speaker 1: the Paleolithic era, seventeen and twenty years old and over
Speaker 1: two thousand figures drawn. And it's like, from what I understand,
Speaker 1: like the granddaddy of all cave drawing scores was here
Speaker 1: in France. Um, here in France. There in France. Well
Speaker 1: there's also another one called Chauvet Cave in France, and
Speaker 1: that's what Herzog's Cave have Forgotten Dreams? Is that, Oh
Speaker 1: you didn't. I'll watch anything that he's in the ordinarrates
Speaker 1: he's a bad guy and is it the new Bond? Now?
Speaker 1: Is that right? Now? He's a bad guy in some
Speaker 1: movie coming up? And I was like, oh, that's brilliant. Yeah, like,
Speaker 1: no one sounds more diabolical than for an earths all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's perfect. Um, but yeah, no, that's that's a good
Speaker 1: one too. And I think they shot it in three
Speaker 1: D as well. It's supposed to be like really good. Um,
Speaker 1: but yeah, check that one out. It's it's very interesting
Speaker 1: because they figure out that, Um, they're like, why why
Speaker 1: would these idiots draw bison with eight legs? Was there
Speaker 1: an eight legged bison back then? And then somebody figured
Speaker 1: out that if you look at it by by torchlight,
Speaker 1: not electric torch but real fire torches, it move. It moves.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that is so cool. Yeah, wow, that's awesome.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I highly recommend you guys go and google
Speaker 1: image these um L A S c A U X
Speaker 1: France and it's all over the place. And what was
Speaker 1: the other one? Chauve h u v e T. Yeah,
Speaker 1: very cool stuff and c have forgotten dreams if you're
Speaker 1: into that. I mean, it's a lot of cattle drawings, granted,
Speaker 1: but um, you know it's better than you would think,
Speaker 1: You're right, considering they're doing this on a cave twenty
Speaker 1: years ago. Right. Uh. There's also bio speleology, which we
Speaker 1: talked about at length and we don't need to really
Speaker 1: get into here again, go listen to the biospeleology episode.
Speaker 1: But that's another reason people go through caves. But ultimately
Speaker 1: I think like the first sentence was the right one.
Speaker 1: It's like the thrill of discovery and unknown. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: so few people doing any actual caving and enough caves
Speaker 1: out there that like, you've got a pretty good shot
Speaker 1: of finding something that no one else has seen for
Speaker 1: ten thousand years or maybe ever. Yeah, you know that's
Speaker 1: pretty cool. Uh, And cavers to um, part of being
Speaker 1: a a caver or a speleologist is being into conservation
Speaker 1: and preservation. And that's one thing I learned from my
Speaker 1: buddy Eric and his friend there. They were like casual
Speaker 1: speed lunkers that were in there, clearly didn't know what
Speaker 1: they were doing, weren't dressed for it, didn't have the
Speaker 1: proper equipment. And of course these guys are just like
Speaker 1: these are the people that get us in trouble or
Speaker 1: that get in trouble that we need to come help
Speaker 1: get out of trouble. Uh. But I think serious cavers
Speaker 1: are uniformly way into the preserving the cave. Like they
Speaker 1: don't just go and cave and like, yeah, that was cool,
Speaker 1: Like they're all into the meetings and the preservation. A
Speaker 1: lot of them do the volunteer for church and rescue
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, Like they really get into it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not a casual affair, no, And I that that
Speaker 1: that idea actually extends to um urban spelunking or urban exploration.
Speaker 1: Um yeah, where you um you enter something like a
Speaker 1: sewer system or an abandoned building or something like that.
Speaker 1: But you're One of the big rules is like you
Speaker 1: can't break an inner. You can enter somebody else has
Speaker 1: already like cut a hole in the chain link fence.
Speaker 1: You go through that hole. You can't cut that hole yourself,
Speaker 1: and you don't take anything. You you preserve the places
Speaker 1: exactly the way it was. And we actually have I think,
Speaker 1: what's a new article on the site that's awesome ten
Speaker 1: top ten cities for urban exploration. It's like got all
Speaker 1: these attractions of like where to go in this city
Speaker 1: and like cool, well Francis the catacombs, I know, we're
Speaker 1: really popular. Um and I did a little bit of
Speaker 1: that in Florida in um Fort Pickens in Pensacola, Oh,
Speaker 1: the Fort Pickens Catacombs. Well, the Fort Pickens battery. It
Speaker 1: was like you know civil war battery. Yeah, and um,
Speaker 1: I think it's all blocked off now. But at the time,
Speaker 1: like the metal bars were bent enough where you could
Speaker 1: get through, and me and my brother and my brother
Speaker 1: in law like may torches and like went all through
Speaker 1: the stuff, you know, stuff written on the walls, like
Speaker 1: from the Civil War, and then stuff written on the
Speaker 1: walls clearly more modern, uh in nature, but just graffitian
Speaker 1: stuff and beer cans. But it was just neat walking around.
Speaker 1: It's cool. Um, what else, Chuck, how do you get started? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I guess if this podcast tickles your fancy, then you
Speaker 1: may want to know how to get into this. Yeah.
Speaker 1: A lot of people might be into the very easy
Speaker 1: guided you walk in and you walk around type of experience. Right,
Speaker 1: take the kids. There's nothing wrong with it. You can
Speaker 1: still learn a lot, you know, it's not a cop
Speaker 1: out like Carl's Bad caverns and like the real touristy ones.
Speaker 1: They're great. Yeah. Have you ever been there? I haven't
Speaker 1: been there. I've been to Ruby Falls. You mean I
Speaker 1: went Ruby Falls? Is nice? It was, yeah, and there
Speaker 1: were plenty of people running around. Was very well lit yeah,
Speaker 1: um safe yeah, and then but it was so awesome
Speaker 1: getting to the falls. Yeah, yeah, I mean like it
Speaker 1: was great. It was total. I think part of the
Speaker 1: reason I appreciated it so much because I took it
Speaker 1: for what it was. It was like this, this is tourism,
Speaker 1: you know, but it's also very cool. Yeah. I mean
Speaker 1: you're walking underneath a fault line in the earth. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's really kind of You can sell t shirts afterward,
Speaker 1: but it's still very cool to be in there. Um,
Speaker 1: So you can do that. You can go to these
Speaker 1: like really big touristy ones and still get a nice variance,
Speaker 1: or you can get a guided tour for you know,
Speaker 1: a little more um intense experience. Have you been in
Speaker 1: Carlsbake camera? Yeah, okay, Yeah, it's nice's lovely. It's like
Speaker 1: red carpet everywhere. Yes, couches everything. Um. But they do
Speaker 1: mention in this article that kids are great to take
Speaker 1: into caves. They love that kind of stuff. Obviously you
Speaker 1: want to keep an eye on them because it's pretty
Speaker 1: easy to get lost in there. Yeah. But at these
Speaker 1: at these big major attractions, they they take care of you.
Speaker 1: You know, they're not gonna let your kids go off
Speaker 1: and live with the salamanders. Yeah, and you've got a
Speaker 1: guide for the guided tour, but even self guided tours
Speaker 1: are it's usually like paved or clearly marked trail, like
Speaker 1: you're you're gonna have a lot of trouble getting lost
Speaker 1: if you get off of this trail, um or if
Speaker 1: you stay on the trail. I should say, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: went to a concert in a cave one time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Tennessee, they man, what's the name of It's something
Speaker 1: caverns and I can't remember now, but it was the
Speaker 1: Litill Rejuice played their last show ever in this cave
Speaker 1: and they have regular shows. They're like usually it's like
Speaker 1: bluegrass and stuff, but it's awesome, Like you you know,
Speaker 1: you park in this big field and then it's one
Speaker 1: of these where you walk into a huge opening and
Speaker 1: there's big paths, but you know, you walk like probably
Speaker 1: half a mile down in there, and then it opens
Speaker 1: up to this huge open room and there's a stage
Speaker 1: and there's lights and everything. That's cool, really cool. Experienced
Speaker 1: the green rooms like there, I don't know, it's probably brown. Right,
Speaker 1: just sit on that rock. We'll bring you some shrimp. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was really very cool show. Though I might post
Speaker 1: pictures of that too. Wow, this is gonna be a
Speaker 1: picture of bananda. Um. Then there's cave diving. Yes, probably
Speaker 1: the most dangerous thing my person can do. We can't
Speaker 1: overstate that enough. Like even these caver dudes that I
Speaker 1: was with, their hardcore they were like, those people are crazy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And if you're a hardcore scuba diver, even a wreck diver,
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean you're a cave diver. No, cave diver
Speaker 1: is its own thing. Yeah, and like it's it's very
Speaker 1: easy to die. In two twelve seven people already died
Speaker 1: in cave diving twelve now, wow, three of them in
Speaker 1: three different days, three consecutive days in Florida, in three
Speaker 1: different incidents. Yeah, in March. Yeah, it's scary. And asked Eric.
Speaker 1: I was like, well why you know, what's the big deal?
Speaker 1: And he was like, dude, you're just you gotta be
Speaker 1: crazy to do it. And he's like, you are underground, underwater,
Speaker 1: and it's very easy to get lost and turned around,
Speaker 1: and you've only got so much air. They say that
Speaker 1: to never like to try and exit with half a
Speaker 1: tank of air still or whatever. It was not air,
Speaker 1: what is it? It's compressed, compressed, just like an air mix,
Speaker 1: but it's generally air. Yeah, But they're like, you don't
Speaker 1: want to go below half a tank ever, that's just scary.
Speaker 1: And he took me after we went caving, he took
Speaker 1: me to the entry point for the cave diving nearby,
Speaker 1: and it's this little probably you know, tin foot by
Speaker 1: tin foot whole, you know, a little pool, but it's
Speaker 1: like infinitely deep and it's like wow, so you can
Speaker 1: jump in and just sort of waddle around, or there's
Speaker 1: below that there's the tube where you enter, and it
Speaker 1: just seems like the scariest thing ever, right with a
Speaker 1: tank of air on your back that could be punctured
Speaker 1: by anything, because it's not like there's not stalactites hanging down.
Speaker 1: Utterly frightening to me. Um that said, if you're in
Speaker 1: a cave diving, you go through the certification and you
Speaker 1: like are into that kind of thing. There's some awesome
Speaker 1: cave diving like sinote Is any sinote Um. And there's
Speaker 1: a place in that I missed when we were talking
Speaker 1: about the Abandoned Minds podcast. There's a place called Bond
Speaker 1: Terror Mine, Missouri, and it's an old lead mine that
Speaker 1: was in production for like a hundred years and then
Speaker 1: they closed it down in nineteen sixty and they didn't
Speaker 1: remove anything there's like magazines, all this stuff still sitting around,
Speaker 1: and they lotted it with like a billion gallons of
Speaker 1: crystal clear water. Really, and you can go scuba dive.
Speaker 1: You can cave dive this abandoned mine now and see
Speaker 1: there's like an old movie theater down there. There's mind
Speaker 1: cars elevator. Yeah, it's pretty cool. That's awesome. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: it's like the visibility is just limitless. I wonder if
Speaker 1: that's slightly safer. I think it's pretty heavily guided as
Speaker 1: well as tours go, So if you're gonna start somewhere,
Speaker 1: that would probably be a good place. Yeah. I saw
Speaker 1: a couple of dudes come out of the whole um.
Speaker 1: Then all the cavers know each other, it seems like
Speaker 1: because they knew these guys and they were like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's good. You know, these guys are real nice. And
Speaker 1: then they turned around they're like they're nuts, these guys
Speaker 1: are crazy. Um. Oh, so all the cavers know each
Speaker 1: other because they're all members of Grottos, right, Yeah, it
Speaker 1: definitely seems like a close knit community, right, Like they're
Speaker 1: all on each other that have each other's contact info
Speaker 1: because you know, when someone gets lost, they send out,
Speaker 1: you know, like who can and help? Basically, who's free
Speaker 1: tomorrow to come and find these idiots tomorrow they're in
Speaker 1: trouble if it's tomorrow, that's true. But well, a grotto
Speaker 1: is a caving club, right, and there are any legitimate
Speaker 1: caving club is sanctioned by the National Speleological Society, and
Speaker 1: there's about two d caving clubs or grottos in the US.
Speaker 1: Nice good people. So if if you're a member of
Speaker 1: a grotto, if you're a caver, what are some of
Speaker 1: the things that you're gonna need. You're already into this,
Speaker 1: You're like, come on, let's go. What are we gonna do? What?
Speaker 1: What do I need to take with me? Well, you
Speaker 1: want to take three forms of light um, and plenty
Speaker 1: of backup batteries and take closed sticks, take the headlamps,
Speaker 1: take lighters, even though those will get wet. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: you can bag him in the dry bag. But take
Speaker 1: as many forms of light as you feel comfortable with.
Speaker 1: That's not less than three, and not only I took
Speaker 1: like four or five flocks. That's smart. Yeah, I just
Speaker 1: and I knew I was gonna be fine, but I
Speaker 1: was just like, you know what, I'm going into the
Speaker 1: depths of the earth. I want to have lots of
Speaker 1: light at my disposal, right, and you want to also
Speaker 1: have lots of batteries and extra bulbs for those lights,
Speaker 1: just because the light, your light is the number one
Speaker 1: most important thing when you're caving. That's the number one
Speaker 1: most important piece of equipment. Yeah, and my buddy Eric
Speaker 1: had a carbide lamp, which, um, you know, back in
Speaker 1: the day with like even car headlights and lights on
Speaker 1: the fronts of houses. Um, it wasn't always a gas lamp.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it was carbide and old school cavers used these things.
Speaker 1: And it's basically a chemical reaction. Um. It burns a
Speaker 1: seedylene gas and it's created from a reaction of calcium
Speaker 1: carbide with water. So he had this, uh, this pod
Speaker 1: that he carried on his belt that had carbide pellets
Speaker 1: in it and it would drip water down and create
Speaker 1: the gas and it fed it up through a tube
Speaker 1: connected to the you know, the the gas lamp that
Speaker 1: he's wearing on his head. And it was really cool.
Speaker 1: The other guy didn't have one, but Eric was used it,
Speaker 1: and um, the light that it gives is just really
Speaker 1: very illuminating. It's not like a you know how incandescent
Speaker 1: light is just so specific, even if it's like a
Speaker 1: broad range, it's not like having a flame. So this
Speaker 1: thing really warn't like warms up the cave. And it
Speaker 1: does actually warm it um slightly, but just generally with
Speaker 1: light warmth. It's just like the cave was illuminated, not
Speaker 1: like a flashlight shining on something very cool and um,
Speaker 1: very durable. Like if you take care of these things,
Speaker 1: they're a little finicky, but if you take care of them,
Speaker 1: you can have them like your whole life. Sounds kind
Speaker 1: of uh no, it's very old school. Yeah, it's old
Speaker 1: angled and you just look cool. Eric looked like a
Speaker 1: cool guy with this tube running out of his head
Speaker 1: and flicking the little lighter switch. And do you look
Speaker 1: cooler than I did with my Yeah, with my glow stick. Um.
Speaker 1: So you need light, you need light. You need a helmet,
Speaker 1: and you want your helmet to be so if I
Speaker 1: by the Union International Day Associations del peace. Yes, Jerry
Speaker 1: just laughed. There. You want to helmet, you want like
Speaker 1: and this is if you if you want to do
Speaker 1: it right like and safely. We we saw morons and
Speaker 1: tank tops and shorts walking around and crawling around and
Speaker 1: you know these guys are just rolling their eyes, are
Speaker 1: like those are the people that get hurt and get lost. Um.
Speaker 1: We had kneepads and elbow pads, helmets, Um. As far
Speaker 1: as safety gear, that was pretty much it, and that
Speaker 1: they have like rope and stuff just in case. Um,
Speaker 1: and you want to dress appropriately avoid cotton. Well, if
Speaker 1: you are wearing cotton, you want to wear under layers
Speaker 1: of synthetics. Yes, snag less easily, they dry more quickly. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would imagine you just want to avoid cotton altogether
Speaker 1: as possible. Yeah. I were one of those like synthetic
Speaker 1: wicking shirts, you know, the workout shirts. Um, but you
Speaker 1: do you want to dress in layers because it's cold
Speaker 1: in there. Yeah, but you know you you may raise
Speaker 1: your heart right here there and you may get a
Speaker 1: little warm. That definitely makes my heart right. Um, you're
Speaker 1: gonna get wet most likely. Um. You can be in
Speaker 1: the dry, dusty cave, but chances are you gonna get wet. Uh.
Speaker 1: There were times where we were up to our chest
Speaker 1: in a crevice about two ft wide, up to our
Speaker 1: chest and water and it's intimidating. It's like I'm far
Speaker 1: away from anybody, and like, what if this water rises?
Speaker 1: I mean it didn't, but you know what if it
Speaker 1: started raining. These things can happen pretty fast down there,
Speaker 1: and uh so, I mean we were literally soaked through
Speaker 1: the bone. It's like getting a swimming pool and then
Speaker 1: you get out and you're covered in mud and you're
Speaker 1: supposed to climb things. That's like climbing a creased wall
Speaker 1: of stone. I'm like, am I supposed to really do this?
Speaker 1: And they were like pushing me by by but it
Speaker 1: was sort of embarrassing, like pulling me. It felt like
Speaker 1: a stuck pig at times. The only thing that made
Speaker 1: it better was the warm glow of the carbine lamp.
Speaker 1: And then they had the pancakes, you know where it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, as I'm surprised my body fit in this
Speaker 1: thing and you had to go like thirty feet across
Speaker 1: this pancake. Well it's a it's where there's a top
Speaker 1: rock and a bottom rock, so basically you just there's
Speaker 1: like a foot of space to crawl through and you
Speaker 1: can't even crawl. You're like inching, you know, using your
Speaker 1: shoulder blades. I would have lost my You would not
Speaker 1: have liked this pancake. And that's when I remember thinking, boy,
Speaker 1: Josh would not have liked this part. It was uncomfortable
Speaker 1: for me. And I don't even have issues with like,
Speaker 1: you know, closed in spaces, but you feel like, what
Speaker 1: if the earth shift did it and this thing just
Speaker 1: smashed me. Yeah, of course you're a that and ship
Speaker 1: like that, but I don't know it could. I'm down there,
Speaker 1: I'm freaking out. Yeah, and you made it, though, I
Speaker 1: don't want to spoil it here. You survived. Uh what else?
Speaker 1: You need? Food? Sure? You want enough to last your
Speaker 1: whole trip, and then some just in case, you know,
Speaker 1: like you want gloves, you want a first aid kit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and here's my favorite part. So we were talking about
Speaker 1: how um like you do you just preserve the environment
Speaker 1: exactly as it was found. This also means that you're
Speaker 1: not allowed to poop there. You can poop there, but
Speaker 1: you're gonna poop into like a plastic container that you
Speaker 1: can carry out with you because you take your urine
Speaker 1: and your feces out of the cave with you. So
Speaker 1: you want a plastic bottle to p intwo and a
Speaker 1: like a good crushed proof container to poop into. I
Speaker 1: did not poop. I wouldn't have pooped. I'd just be like, well,
Speaker 1: I guess I'm not pooping today. Yeah, and you know
Speaker 1: I was only down there a few hours. So if
Speaker 1: you can. If you can't hold your poop a few hours,
Speaker 1: you probablyouldn't be caving that day. Man, just put it off,
Speaker 1: you know. Imagine getting sick down there, like vomity, No,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what you mean, the other kind o
Speaker 1: like poopies. Yeah, yeah, that would be awful. Um. If
Speaker 1: you have a cave map, which you should have, UM,
Speaker 1: bring a few copies, put them in zip blocks, hand
Speaker 1: them out to your friends that you're with, make sure
Speaker 1: everyone knows what's going on. And you also want to
Speaker 1: probably leave one at home with an X marks the
Speaker 1: spot of your route. And um, well, at least it's
Speaker 1: the cave safety, doesn't it. Yeah. Um, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of precautions you should be taking before you set out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what you're doing. Do not take it lightly.
Speaker 1: It's not like a hike, um that you can go on,
Speaker 1: so it's it's definitely different. You should go with someone
Speaker 1: that knows what they're doing. Um. At the very least, uh,
Speaker 1: A couple of people would be even better. They say
Speaker 1: not to go in really large groups because you don't
Speaker 1: want to, like you could leave someone behind easier, Like
Speaker 1: four to six people is a good number, and you
Speaker 1: want to put the slowest person at the front of
Speaker 1: the group. That would have been me. So everybody's kind
Speaker 1: of pushing them from behind sometimes literally. Uh. And the
Speaker 1: reason why is because you know that person doesn't get
Speaker 1: left behind. That makes the whole groups together. And if
Speaker 1: you're into um, passive aggressive peer pressure, that's great. That's
Speaker 1: a great situation for everybody. Yeah, you know, no, you're fine.
Speaker 1: That's what they kept saying to I know you're doing great, buddy,
Speaker 1: And I was like, no, I'm not. I know, I'm
Speaker 1: that guy. Um. You also, never ever want to go
Speaker 1: caving alone. I don't think there's a better sentence that's
Speaker 1: ever been spoken by anybody. Never go caving alone. That's
Speaker 1: a good idea. Um. If you do get lost, they
Speaker 1: say to stay put, and that it's better to stay
Speaker 1: put instead of moving around because at least you're where
Speaker 1: you last were. You are where you last were, well,
Speaker 1: you're where you said you were going to be at
Speaker 1: least roughly. If your light goes out in your alone,
Speaker 1: start screaming at the top of your lungs until someone
Speaker 1: comes and gets you. That's probably not a idea, but
Speaker 1: they say not to freak out. But yeah, I would
Speaker 1: definitely try and make a little noise, although you also
Speaker 1: don't want to attract the descent hail billies. Yeah, they were,
Speaker 1: they were mountain folk. You know. That was a lot
Speaker 1: like a Lovecraft um story. I wasn't I can't remember
Speaker 1: the name of it, but it's, uh, there's a whole
Speaker 1: thing that takes place in the Alleghanies, maybe at Airondacks
Speaker 1: one somewhere up there. Um, whereas this family that was
Speaker 1: like kind of mountain folk came to inbreed and eventually
Speaker 1: moved underground. Was one of his best ones. Man, he was.
Speaker 1: We should do a podcast on him. Okay, what a
Speaker 1: twisted mind. Well we did the Necronomic and remember, yeah,
Speaker 1: but let's just do one in his life what made
Speaker 1: him tick? Let's do it. Um. Oh, well, we're at
Speaker 1: it real quick, dude. I found a real legitimate physics
Speaker 1: paper or written by a legitimate physicist that explains how
Speaker 1: certain of the in uh lovecrafts the Call of Cthulhu
Speaker 1: can be explained away by quantum physics. Really yeah, it's
Speaker 1: specifically a gravitational lensing. Yeah, to explain what cthulhu is
Speaker 1: or know, like what happened to this guy who went
Speaker 1: mad and described this crazy place that he went and
Speaker 1: stumbled upon in the South Pacific um and then came
Speaker 1: back and wrote about it. They were like, well, actually,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, what he's talking about is a quantum bubble. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's pretty awesome. That's like it's it gets like he
Speaker 1: works out math and formulas for explaining all of this
Speaker 1: and that's but the rest of it is really interesting. Wow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't remember what it's called, but probably look up
Speaker 1: the physics of the called cathula and I'm sure it'll
Speaker 1: bring it up. That's a good one. That's awesome. So
Speaker 1: what are some of the big problems you're going to
Speaker 1: run into, Chuck, aside from getting lost or running out
Speaker 1: of light. Hypothermia, right, always a concern when you're cold
Speaker 1: and wet. Um, Like I said earlier, letting of passages,
Speaker 1: which I was worried about the whole time, um slipping, falling.
Speaker 1: I was slipping all over the place. It's gonna happen
Speaker 1: in these muddy caves and you know, you just I
Speaker 1: just sort of slid and try not to pick my
Speaker 1: face up off the rock. But I definitely got bumps
Speaker 1: and bruises and I was really sore the next day.
Speaker 1: It was like mountain climbing, except under ground in the
Speaker 1: mountain was slick and muddy. That's basically kind of what
Speaker 1: it felt like rock climbing. It was not what I
Speaker 1: thought it was gonna be. Once again, I can't stress
Speaker 1: that enough. It's not It's not a stroll. Hey my
Speaker 1: bologna se am. Yeah. It was pretty bad, um, but
Speaker 1: super fun. And like I said, when you come out, man,
Speaker 1: it's so weird once you've been underground for that long,
Speaker 1: when you come out into the real world, everything is
Speaker 1: just like hypercolorful and bright and just weird, and it's like, man,
Speaker 1: there's a whole different world down there that most people
Speaker 1: don't know about. Highly encourage it. Just be careful. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's good advice. Is there anything else in here? Um?
Speaker 1: Always make sure that several people above ground know where
Speaker 1: you went, know where you're going now when you expect
Speaker 1: to be back. Um, and if somebody does get hurt,
Speaker 1: never leave that person alone. A couple of people have
Speaker 1: to stay with them. A couple of people have to
Speaker 1: go top side. The people who go top side need
Speaker 1: to leave some of their supplies and lightening stuff and
Speaker 1: water back with the people who are hanging out with
Speaker 1: the injured person. They need to know exactly where the
Speaker 1: injured person is so they can tell other people who
Speaker 1: can come get them out. Um. And Uh. They also
Speaker 1: need to remember to take the car keys with them.
Speaker 1: Really kind of important. You don't want to get all
Speaker 1: the way out there and be like, can you imagine
Speaker 1: let the keys in there? Uh. And then, like you said,
Speaker 1: if you ever get lost, you don't want to panic.
Speaker 1: You want to stay put. You want to rely on
Speaker 1: your plan, your backup plan, which was letting a bunch
Speaker 1: of people know that you were supposed to have been
Speaker 1: home two hours ago and you weren't that right. And
Speaker 1: there are thousands of caves in the US, um many
Speaker 1: of which are very explorable. Just do your research beforehand,
Speaker 1: go with someone that knows what they're doing. There are
Speaker 1: more extreme caves around the world that are very cool
Speaker 1: to look at. Ones that you actually can skydive into,
Speaker 1: or not scott dive, but base jump into. Boy that
Speaker 1: I can't imagine Scott having into one. I think I've seen, um,
Speaker 1: I've seen video of people bass jumping into this Sutano
Speaker 1: de LESCo and yeah it was. I think Planet Earth
Speaker 1: the Discovery Show had that. Okay, yeah, that's it was.
Speaker 1: It's way cool. And then like you talked about the nots,
Speaker 1: those are very cool too. Um, just be careful. Have
Speaker 1: we said that enough? I don't know. I don't think
Speaker 1: you can, because, like I said, once you get there,
Speaker 1: you realize they're just a bunch of dummies no matter
Speaker 1: what that are ill prepared locals that are like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I've been done here before. Good luck people. That's all
Speaker 1: I've got. Okay, Well, if you want to learn more
Speaker 1: about caping, you can type in spelunking in the search
Speaker 1: bar at how stuff works dot com. Sp E l
Speaker 1: U n K I n G. It will bring up
Speaker 1: this article. Um and uh, I said spelunky, which means,
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Speaker 1: we got lots and lots and lots of feedback on that.
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Speaker 1: He's originally from Orlando but currently lives in Karachi for university.
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Speaker 1: various pseudo Italian names including Chicken Florentine, um Dominoes. Flavors
Speaker 1: in Pakistan are a little more mainstream American, while they
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Speaker 1: I know involves corn, pineapple, and probably chicken. Along with
Speaker 1: the corporate giants, there are plenty of local chains oddly
Speaker 1: generic sounding names including Pizza Place, Pizza Point, Pizza, California Pizza,
Speaker 1: and the list goes on and on. So just pizza.
Speaker 1: It's it's a type of Unfortunately, my university and dorm
Speaker 1: are located on the outskirts of town, not in the
Speaker 1: ideal neighborhoods at these places usually don't deliver, but I
Speaker 1: suppose that's fine. I don't hold her pizza very much
Speaker 1: here as Pakistani pizza is kind of small and a
Speaker 1: bit too cakey and very super bready, but it fills
Speaker 1: you up, um and you never leave hungry. I just
Speaker 1: had a fairly tasty contraption from pizza point around five
Speaker 1: hours ago for dinner. I can still feel it in
Speaker 1: my throat less and learn you did not go to
Speaker 1: bed in the morning, sleep until the evening, didn't order
Speaker 1: excess food anyways. Love the show uh and lots of
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